| Life is life like |
[Oct. 2nd, 2009|07:26 pm] |
Well, life has been going on for me the same as it ever has, whatever that might mean.
Friends have been good of late, a couple weeks ago ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nikonraccoon came to visit for RainFurrest and hanging out after. I would have liked to have hung out with her more, but it was still nice to see her. Next time we'll set out a day just to be femmy.
I've been slacking off on the gym of late, but at least my attempt to give up caffeine has worked out pretty well. I don't drink coffee very often anymore, and soda hardly at all. I think it's been for the best, it's nice to not have to worry about having a soda during the day to keep from getting a caffeine headache. So yay for one last thing to stress about. I just need to eat better and lose another twenty-five to thirty pounds.
Lastly, I finally broke down and joined Twitter as VikkyMouse. You can follow me if you like, I'm sure to be more talkative there. |
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| Doing without |
[Jun. 21st, 2009|10:59 pm] |
On Monday morning I decided I was going to skip out on caffeine for the whole week, at least to start. Call it part of my diet, but it was also driving by the fact that I've been waking up with headaches and wanted to see if this would help get rid of them.
Work wasn't to hard, I haven't been drinking any soda at work anymore, but I still had a couple cups of coffee each day. That was a bit harder to give up then I had expected. At home I tried to stick to water, which is okay, but still kind of bland.
For most of the week I stuck with juice at work, and water and or milk at home. On the whole I felt okay, no headaches, but no other changes. I'm going to keep this up for the next week to see how it goes.
It's nice to have one less thing I'm dependent on. |
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| A fully random thought |
[Jun. 9th, 2009|12:11 am] |
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The berry scented body wash I picked up this weekend smells nice. I know, it's kind of silly, but I like berry scents and this one is a nice one. I'm very happy with it. |
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| Out of excuses |
[Apr. 27th, 2009|10:12 pm] |
When I'm not interested in doing something even the smallest excuse will be enough for me not to bothering to do it. This will effect everything at some point or another, but one that bothers me has been the gym.
I started going to the gym three times a week a couple of years back, and over six months I lost 50 pounds. Of course things started to slow down.
The first excuse was that I was going to the gym before work, so I head to leave the house earlier and stay at work longer. This was good enough that three times a week became less then once a month.
Then I started taking the bus to work, and it went right past by gym, and the time wasn't that big of a deal because of how the bus schedule worked out. So I tried again, after a month in became to much of a pain to take my gym clothing with me on the bus, so I stopped going again.
After I changed jobs I tried using the gym at the apartment complex. This meant getting right out of bed, changing and going to the gym. Of course I was too tired for that, and it was cold, and most of the equipment was broken. This never really caught on.
So, now I'm at my new job, and like many they provide gym benefits, but this one is a bit different. The gym is located in the office itself. It's a small gym, but it's a small company.
Okay, so the gym is 100 feet away from my desk. No travel issues.
The walk to the bus stop is small, so taking the clothing with me isn't a problem. And I can leave it at work during the week.
There's always that time in the mid afternoon where I just want to get up from my desk and do something else to clear my head.
For the last couple of weeks I've been going to the gym three times a week without any balancing or trying to convince myself. In fact I look forward to it. Half an hour on an elliptical machine makes the rest of the day much more relaxed.
So, here's to working off another 50 pounds, while not having to go out of my way at all.
Oh, and all of you out there in LJ land who know me in real life. Kick my ass if I screw this one up, okay? |
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| With a flip of a coin |
[Apr. 4th, 2009|02:18 pm] |
I feel like I need to make a change to my life, add some excitement and adventure, or maybe just more good times. I just don't know how to go about it. I'll just have keep doing whatever it is that comes into my mind, that does work most of the time.
Not that there is anything wrong all told. I have a home, a job, and all the usually things that go along with it. Even so, I do want to strive for more, I'm just not sure what that more would be.
Just a wondering thought from a wondering mouse. |
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| Reinforcing the Positive |
[Mar. 12th, 2009|11:21 pm] |
Yesterday I posted the seventh chapter of Something Blue: The Other Life, and so far the responses have been pretty good. I'm getting reviews and comments on almost every part, and some people are nice enough to point out a few of my editing mistakes.
I'm really pleased with how well people are responding to the story. It was kind of a leap, going from an AU retelling of one of the games into something with basically a brand new main character. I'm planing one or two more follow ups, which will add more original characters to the setting and take it ever further away from the plots of the games.
So far posting one chapter a week has been a net win all around. It's allowed me to keep the post work on the chapters going and still have time to fix things as well as plot out the follow up story. It's also had the nice side effect of keeping the story near the top of the category on FanFiction.Net. |
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| Lack of Fanfic |
[Feb. 12th, 2009|11:56 pm] |
Of late I've been watching a lot of older TV shows on DVD, including the first season Star Trek: The Next Generation, which is both better and worse then I remember. I could say more about it, but that might be for a later post when I finish with the season.
The other show I've been watching has been Columbo. I used to watch the TV movies of the series and was surprised to find that there never really was a series. It was always a set of TV movies, but original it was part of a rotating series of movies.
Either way it's been a good, and has aged fairly well. I've always enjoyed the slightly odd take on the usually detective story. It's always about watching Columbo take down the killer, who we get to see do the killing in the first act. It's not really a mystery, it's more like watching an interesting game of chess.
After finishing the first season I thought I would peek at FanFicition.net to see what fanfic had been done for the series. It turns out there isn't a category for Columbo, and a search pulls up a few references to the show, but no fanfiction at all.
Now, that isn't to say there is not Columbo fan fiction. In fact there seems to be one central sight for it at Just One More Paragraph (which I found from Peter Falk's website). I'll have to read over some of it.
Even so, the lack of anything on fanfiction.net feels like a challenge. I'm already playing with story ideas. |
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| 9 |
[Feb. 5th, 2009|10:18 pm] |
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I'm wondering, how many of you have seen the trailer for "9"? Of all the movies coming out this year, I think this and Watchmen are the ones I can't wait to see. |
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| Something Blue: The Other Life |
[Feb. 5th, 2009|02:55 pm] |
Some of you may remember "Something Blue", my StarFox Adventures Fanfic I did a couple years back. Well, I've now started posting the sequel to that story.
This is a semi-direct follow up to the first story, picking up a few weeks later, still in the same Alternate Universe. I'm sort of trying to work out what would happen in this sort of situation to this sort of person.
Based on some advice from when I posted the original story, I'm posting this one at the rate of one chapter a week. You can find it on my FurAffinity account, and my FanFicition.Net account.
Thank you, and I hope you enjoy the story. |
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| IM |
[Jan. 24th, 2009|04:48 pm] |
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I changed oven my MSN ID to something current, and it looks like it mucked up a bit of my IM. If you talked with me on MSN just pass me a line and I'll get you my new information. |
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| Online Dislocation |
[Jan. 21st, 2009|04:31 pm] |
Well, it turns out that Fox has decided to update his web page to be more professional. Turns out that my stuff doesn't quiet make the cut (though to be fair, it seems like most of his stuff won't survive it either). Because of this I'm going to move my stories and stuff over to FurAffinity. I guess it's about time I joined the rest of the crowd.
Even so, I'm not honestly thrilled with this whole change. It will take time to get everything up there. I might also adjust few things in the process. I'm don't know just yet.
I also hope this isn't my 'one post for the year'. Even if that is how I always use the journal. I always say I'm going to post more, but I just have nothing to post about. Except when I do like the con I went to last year. Oh well, cross fingers.
Oh, I also have a new user avatar. |
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| A good start on the year |
[Feb. 4th, 2008|08:21 pm] |
The year has been going okay so far, not perfectly, but okay. I've been planing and doing more writing, and working on a follow up to Something Blue. I've also been going to the gym more and as of this morning I've lost five pounds so far this year. I hope I can keep it up.
Otherwise there hasn't been a lot going on, I hope to go out sometime this week, even just to have a nice dinner. Sadly it seems like that sort of plan seem to get pushed by the wayside a little to often. Still, I'm going to try, it gets boring to be stuck around the house all week. |
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| Same me for the new year |
[Jan. 23rd, 2008|07:26 pm] |
With the year finally turned to 2008 I've decided the time has come to go back to the gym. Last year it work really well for me, I lost almost 50 pounds and had some nice muscle tone.
I hope to lose another 50 or so this year and I've made some changes to that end. I'm going to the gym twice a week, and I'm going to stick pretty close to that. I found a way to make it a lot easier to do so I have less excuses about it.
I've also starting taken a multi-vitamin that is suppose to help with weight loss. The brand is pretty reliable, so I'm kind of hoping it helps. I'm adjusting my diet a bit more as well, cutting back on the soda and trying to eat a bit healthier.
So far I've dropped a 3 pounds already and seem to be bouncing in a generally downward direction. I hope I can lose at least 10 (preferably 15) by March, but that's not necessary.
And I need new pants. The old ones just don't fit anymore. |
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| The scribbling of pens |
[Jul. 18th, 2007|07:58 pm] |
I've started writing again, it's been so long I almost forgotten what it felt like. I'm glad I am finally back at it, there is a lot I want to try and say.
In that vain I have finally come up with a working story for a sequel to Something Blue, and it's turning into quite the character piece. I even wrote myself in for a few scenes. This is going to be a different story then the original Something Blue, which was just a series of intersections with the main overall story of the game. This will be it's own story and read like it... I hope.
I have also, after same encouragement from some friends, started an a story with myself as the main character. It was partly inspired by FoxCutter's writing, and partly by my own back story. I also created a new character that has helped a lot (though she doesn't make an appearance in the story). I don't plan on making it a huge epic like Foxies stories, but I may do a few more if people seem to like the first one. |
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| Oh! That's nice! |
[Jul. 12th, 2007|11:06 pm] |
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Another trip to the gym today, I've been going regularly now since the start of the year and it's beginning to show. I've dropped almost twenty-five pounds from the start of the year and I really feel better for it. I've come to enjoy going to the gym, I even took an extra trip to go in earlier this week when I had a day off.
I'm still not comfortable in the lock room, even after all this time. I mostly stay in the corner when I change and try not to look at anyone else and to not show anything off. It's not easy, but I've gotten used to it.
Something interesting happened today, normally I don't may attention to anyone else in the gym, but not today. Today I spotted a cute women with a nice ass who I couldn't take my eyes off of. I don't think she saw me (I would have been so embarrassed if she had) but I enjoyed watching her.
If I was a bit less shy I might have exchanged some words with here, maybe see if she would have been interested in joining me at the drink bar. I know it's a flight of fancy, made all the more so by my not doing a thing, but I enjoy thinking about it. I'm glad I like women as well as men. |
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| Coffee and good conversation |
[May. 8th, 2007|11:46 pm] |
Tonight I got a chance to go out with tracerj again, I wasn't up for another night around the house and she was up for getting together. I'm glad she was, it was really nice to spend time with her just chatting about this and that.
As an added bonus I got to meet pathia. She's very nice and I would like to chat with her more if I can, the brief meeting was nice, but still all to brief.
I need to get out of the house more, but every few weeks is good enough for now. |
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| All dressed up |
[Apr. 26th, 2007|06:53 pm] |
I'm probably not going to walk down the aisle anytime soon, but I'm still excited that Disney is going to start offering Princess inspired gowns for brides. Luckily these are not just the normal costumes done as weeding dresses, but more of an inspiration and style.
I like the pictures in the slide show, some of the gowns are really nice, and there are a couple I would like to have... if they didn't cost a fortune. Still, I can dream, can't I? |
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| Just one of those nights |
[Apr. 24th, 2007|07:24 pm] |
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Last night turned out to be a little bit unpleasant for me. I got hit by a funk from right out of the blue. I don't know what caused it, but I found myself feeling very sorry for myself. Luckily I had some friends to chat with to help cheer me up and a good nights sleep helped past most of the rest of it. What little was left in the morning I worked off at the Gym.
Even so, today was a longer then it should have been. Everything seemed to take more energy to do and to long to get started. I even got home late.
Now I've had dinner, made myself some tea, and trying to do something with the rest of the evening. I want to get some writing done, but the blank page is being pesky tonight. I'm not sure what I want to do, but I know I want to do something. |
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| It's me... but different. |
[Apr. 22nd, 2007|09:37 pm] |
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Today I had an interesting trip to the gym. This was the first time I had gone on a Sunday and I was surprised to find the place empty. I was worried if it was open as I pulled up, but the lights were on and I could see a few people.
Thankfully the locker room was just as sparsely populated. It was nice to be able to change without worrying about who was watching me. I've been going to the gym for a few months (more often in the last month) and I've never gotten use to it.
It was also interesting that today was the first day I felt good when I was done at the gym. Normally I'm tired and just want to leave, not feeling good. It was a nice change, and I hope it continues.
The gym has been paying off for me. My stamina is up, my weight is down, and I'm feeling a lot better now.
I have also been talking with Tincrash the last few weeks, and he recently did a picture of me pregnant. I love this picture, it really looks like me, and I look so lovely pregnant. It's not the first time I've been drawn expecting, but I think this is the loveliest picture of it.
There is also a story idea brewing in my head, based on the picture... but that is for later. |
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| A night out |
[Apr. 10th, 2007|11:13 pm] |
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I had a lot of fun tonight. I got a chance to get together with tracerj for dinner and some conversation. Those who know me know I don't get out very often, so this was a special treat.
I drove up to her place and picked her up, and then we headed to a nearby Applebees. Dinner was nice, and we split a very rich dessert. I'm going to have to do an extra day or two at the gym to work it off, but it was worth it.
After dinner we went back to her apartment for a while and got to talk. It was nice just to go and hangout with a friend for a few hours. It was a nice break from the normal. I hope we can do it again sometime soon. |
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